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Show -- x- .. J -- rr.",.. "I teiwi . w4s 4 6k " r. - ...-- icr tut f Herald Telephones r? For Ads, News, Circulation: Provo Office, 190 W. 4th N. .... FB ...... AC .......... Fit Orem Oft ice, 741 N. Staff For Society Ktl 50 KL -- il605 81 s Polls- by - S how rf se ' n ; emos am . have a decided edge oveP Republicans in the eyes of its members'but this could disappear before 1960 elections. "A decline .reflecting disillusion ment (with the Democrats) is definitely beginning to show," the anion said , in. an article published in the current issue of CVVA Probe Report On Radio, TV :ews. LAHR By RAYMOND '. See Gradual Shift United Press International Polls taken since 1958 mah-clea- r PresiGa. (UPD AUGUSTA, that there has been a grna dent Eisenhower has received a shift among CWA members report on the Justice Depart- ral ment's investigation of "deceptive away from the Democratic p ir practices" in the radio and tele- ty, it added. vision industry, it was announced The latest survey was taken 'today. The report will be made public among delegates to the union' annual convention and through tonight.; ' White House News Secretary nationwide of CWA samplingPresithe C: said James Hagerty members? The latter group closedent had, asked Attorney General or a cross-sectio- n William' P. Rogers for an inquiry ly resembles U. S. adult population, the during House committee hearings the reunion said. on rigged TV shows. Hagerty ferred specifically to the hearing e Other results showed-thain which Charles Van Doren admembers were disap mitted taking part jn a fixed pointed ' in the achievements of show. ' the Democratic - dominated ConHagerty said the Justice recomcontained report gress, the union said; mendations of action by Rogers "If this trend becomes a realiand that Rogers will continue to ty, then the Democratic party is make recommendations. ' anin for a sad awakening in 1950," Receipt of the report was nounced as : the President and the CWA , pollsters said. Mrs. Eisenhower prepared to greet the new year at .a private Need Constructive Leadership party, at the Augusta National --The CWA said 73 per cent jf Golf Club, where they; are spend- those surveyed in June, 1958, sa:d holiday. ing their year-en- d were doThe-- President intended to es tney felt the Democrats ing thebest job of handling ma cape from work today and limit jor to Lis day-tim- e activities to golf and 69.9 issues. This afigure droppedand year later loafing. He was cheered by clear- fell toper69j;ent cent last August per ing skies and warmer weather In an analysis of these figures, than he has had. "The Democrats need construc4 - "rank-and-fil- . . De-partme- nt -- -- , -- tive' and imaginative leadership Anti Semitic Slogans Stir West Germans the union concluded: if this erosion is to be stopped." CWA, which represents about .150,000 workers in the telephone and related industries, claims that Us previous surveys have never been more than 1 or 2 per ceji off in their predictipns'. BONN, Germany (UPI) A new sloincident in which were smeared and swastikas gans on a public building was disclosed today byT police in the North" Bavarian town of Scheinfeld. , Unknown persons daubed the offensive marks on both sides of the entrance to the town courthouse. Painted in black, the slogans read "Down with Jhe Jews" and "Germany awake.r Police said the daubing was done Wednesday night and discovered this morning. The incident was the latest in a wave that has broken out across the nation. ' Chancellor. Konrad Adenauer's Sovernment was running into serious trouble with the opposition g Socialists over the in an uproar started by two men with a pot of paint. T?he two men, Arnold Strunk and Paul Gchoenen, were under at rest on chargesof daubing a Cologne synagogue with Nazi swastikas and anteJewishv slogans on anti-Semit- Four Polaris Missile Subs Due By Early '61 ic - Nixon was scheduled to depart from Washington late Wednesday but decided to taka a later flight His wife and daughters left without him. The vice president 'was ex- - ' pcetcd to arrive in Los Angeles in time for a luncheon engagement. He will participate in the' Rose Bowl Parade on New Year's Day. - . Nixon Tries By MARGUERITE DAVIS fx t ; - , ' t yesterday." In another development, s trade paper reported that the top executives of the 11 largest stse' firms met in New York Wednesday night. American Metal Market said their purpose was to re- ! ur - sel-t'em.e- nt , e g f !, --- The commission approved sevwithin the , t V - ' - - HKRALD INDEX Ceaual Utah News ICom.cs .. f ed o I V . ial y onu' , it aries f) ieiy .. S;o.ts Stocks 3, 4, 12 r ...... World News . 10, 11 9 8 2 4 5 6, 7 4 . CHICAGO - '- - traveled the lowest Americans traffic dents in 1959. But; the year was "There is good reason to hope the safest in the history of the nathat the upward surge of the traftion's highways., fic toll in the early months of These contradictory figures Lthis were released today by the Na year has been definite!y tional Safety Council, which esti- stopped and that the nation'f mated the 1939 traffic death toll streets and highways will become at between 37,500 and 33,000 al safer and safer," a council most 1,000 more than last year. spokesman said. But the year's mileage deatn. Probably the most tragic figure rate was 5.4 for every 100 mil was the 1,400,000 persons disabled k v Red-Chiif- h HEAVY SNOWSTORM AT LAST . AND IT'S FUN! Whether today's snowstorm in Utah Valley was really fun depended on the point of view. These three children of Mr. and Mrs. Jean Pulve'r, 36 E. 4th N., Provo, thought it was great as white stuff. The children, from left are Mary they romped in the newly-falle- n Jean 7; David, 6; and Ellen, 4. (Herald staff photo by Lenore Carter) six-inc- 12-2- 7 Dangerous Roads Bring U.S. Crash 91 Law Officers Old Year Exits With Area's Heaviest Storm By WINIFRED N; JONES Benson Backs Nixon For Nomination Secre-- 1 (UPI) Agriculture Ezra T. Bentary son endorsed Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination today. But he indicated he would not remain WASHINGTON "of in the Cabinet if Nixon is elected. "Yes, he is my candidate, of Course," Benson told a news conference. "He appears to be out in front and I feel he --would make a good President." Benson 'was asked if he would continue as secretary of agriculture if Nixon is elected. He replied that after eight years t)n the job he hoped to be free to do something else. Benson is an Saints apostle of the Latter-da- y Church and is on leave from his . , church duties. This was Benson's first news conference since his gall bladder operation a month ago. Benson said he had lost' 25 pounds, "and I hope I don't gain them back." lie said doctors had given him a clean bill of health. . ' 33,0 M lion miles acci- on record. Nilcita May - Safest Year In U S. Traffic (UPllbout died in budget without raising the overall total as earlier proposed, upon departmental requests. These included: Adding $2100 to the public safety 1960 budget of $5000, bringing total budget to $7150 as in1959. Adding $1895 to salaries in the sheriff's budget, which - would otherwise have been the only department to take a pay cut while By JOSEPH W. GRIGG most other departments were inUnited Press International creasing salary budgets. The in- U LONDON (UPI) Soviet Pre crease will bring sheriff salaries mier Nikita S. Khrushchev may to $50,810 the same as 1959 but fly to Peiping for talks with overall budget $63,446 is below leaders before the May 16 this year's $74,435. East - West summit meeting hv ? Budget f of Jail Paris, Western diplomats specuof lated today. Added $100 to the jail budget ' $26,818, which this year was The diplomats predicted that k $25,000, to cover vacation replace- meeting of the Communist bloc ments. Jail budget was increased leaders might also be held befor upon protest that operations costs Khrushchev meets with President was. up six per cent due to more Eisenhower; British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and French prisoners handled. to treasurer's President Charles de Gaulle. $1000 Added The speculation was based on budget of $31,415 to handle possible increased advertising lists these facts: t of delinquent taxes (due to the Khrushchev will have nearly steel strike). This budget now to- two months between his' March visit to Paris and the East-Wetaling $32,415 remains under the 1959 budget of $35,555. summit meeting. He certainly would want to1 The Eldred Hospital fireworks was touched off with a paragraph line up his summit plans with in the formal letter of presenta- other Communist leaders. Western diplomats pointed out tion of the budget to the commission by County Auditor Robert that a meeting between KhrushQ. Strong, which read as follows: chev and satellite leaders could "The health center, which has easily be held during the May been in the two previous year's j Day celebrations in Moscow, budgets in the amount of 137,500". Many of them will be in the eliminated this year since vict capital then. Khrushchev: the surplus that might have been gave the May Day celebrations used to build itv as put into the aa the reason for his rejection of Kiareu Minsrt Manor tnromc '''nai .tpni u oaic for the summit. . Disease Hop'tal. The expendi-- 1 P'-' , has-not Com- Kiirushchcv visit thi? dii ture by We county for r.njnji imna ociore me nri pital totals approx maiciy 000 to date." (This is county cap!-- , East-Wesu;uMit meeting in Ge-tin ncva inrvestmcnt over several years July of 1955. But be Plan Flight To Peiping ' i , and Roman ' 4 three-hourCybl- ic eral "adjustments" . ' Step Up Vigil On Motorists slick, but open at presstime, and highway patrolmen urged cxtretue caution if driving was necessary. The slick roads, combined with traditional New Year's Eve celebrations could create havoc wjth traffic. Up to presstime today, however, only one injury accident had been recorded in the county, on U.S. 91 north of Springville. Forecast was for continuing stormy conditions with barometer readings down and the front just smashups. This was an by auto 'over the 1958 total of increase 1,350,000 disabling injuries. Safety Council officials , first g feared a total of 40,000 or more traffic deaths7 during 1959. From January to August, American motorists killed themselves off at a record paee- 1 to 8 per cent more than during corresponding months of 1953 .. But safety took over during :he last five months . , record-smashin- ; By United Prcs International I The nation's law officers began an all-odrive today to keep of American motorists from dying this New Year's week end.. s Police were spurred by a National Safety Council prediction that 320 persons will die on U.S. highways in the first week end of the new year. a Leaves were cancelled on went officers 10or many police 12 hour shifts. National Guardsmen were ordered to help man ut . nt serv-ice.- O K Half the Nation Chamber of ComUnited Press International merce board of directors WednesThe 1960s will make a soggy in opposidebut Friday with rain or snow day reiterated its stand west of covering more than half the na- tion to a paved highway tion, the Weather Bureau said Utah Lake until after the interstate The Provo , ' . today. The bureau said snow : was expected for New Year's Day north of a line from northwestern Oklahoma to northern Illinois and from the Rockies into the Pacific . j - . northwest. .1 I - . .;...'. j j highway, is completed. Directors passed a motion to restate the Chamber's opposition to road in, letters to the be addressed to the Utah Road Commission, the Utah County Commission and the county commis west-of-la- ke pro-hundre- ds d . st al new to Peiping in August of 1958 when he was plugging for a sum- Sanitarian Sneaks The "approved, J959 budget" as mit meeting over the Middle East . issued to the press shows figures crisis. Chinese Co'iimunist 1958. 1S57 boss, Mao for but I'sts approand Tsa-lun- g to then Khrushchev a for got health priation of $137,500 on camhis summit" backtrack center only this year. out of th pique because Speaking on. t)Chalf of City- paiga was not invited." Glen Health Peiping regime County Department, Khrushchev! most recent visit Sagers, chief sanitarian, said hj to Red China came in October federal the it unlikely thought could hoH m?trhn? following the Soviet premier's funds, if the.cct? has no ap- - tour of the United States and Lscnhowei'. ir was laihs '.ydh propriation in 1930. discussed Khrushchev At this point, former Commis- - believed Co'inwith Mao Utah and summit questions timer Sterling Jones. Red then. Chinese other leaders ty Republican chairman, asked if the surplus har! been trans ferred already to Eldred Hospi tal or was going to be trans ferred. lie also asked why the infirmary budget for I960 ylists notjust 1959). ' ; mcnt go-efn- - Russ Retracts $95,919 for "capital expenditures?' tn the Eldred hospital (w;rin completed, )ard why the youth home lists a 1959 appropriation of $21,000 in (he 1CG0 budget when the ''ijpprovcfl 1959 Is1 budget' Mists $15,000. The Prior Charge U. S. Against lal'or was a clericalerror, said Mr. Strong. Heated Discussion This kicked off a heated discussion Jri which everybody appeared to use the ivord "deficit" (Continued on Page Four) By HENRY SHAPIRO United I'res International MOSCOW (UPI) Russia leading, nuclear-blas- t expert today ef- retracted the Soviet charge that the United States has, fectively been conducting underground tests. Proyo CC Renews Opposition To Road West of Utah Lake Rain or Snow Predicted For st So-w- as beginning, to move. Only strong weather activity to the north would be able to force the storm extra cars. area 0ut of the region, weather- - In squad Illinois, police planned to men report. About six inches of enow had fallen by noon todav keep their flasher lights operating the holiday period as at the Provo Airport. It began throughout a for motorists to ease reminder after midnight last night and conup on the gas tinued through the day-- Chicago police, while reminding Skiers were jubilant at the motorists that "we are not runsnow, but canyon roads were a taxi service," offered to ning filling with the storm. home. drivers Utah State Road equipment has help tipsy vvbuld "We rather help people been out since 1 a.mA clearing snow and sanding hills land stop home Julian help them to the hoareas. Provo City also had ecjuip-me- spitalor the morgue," Police Comout with crews clearing missioner Timothy J. O'Conner rid. sidewalks and sanding streets. Police on New Jersey's Garden Serious injury to a Provo man State Parkway offered drivers and bruises to a Richfield famil a cup of the road" for occurred at o:au a.m. today on 'one tea toast. or with Bus drivcoffee U.S. 91 two miles north of Spring to drop in told were ers Detroit ville when a jeep collided with I at their doorstep if car. Treated at the UtahValley passengers Hospital and released to his home the revelers want the extra was Richard Earl Lowe24, 67 N. Iova Public Safety Commission9th W., Provo, driver and sole a Donald Station announced er of the suffered occupant ' jeepHe severe lacerations of the head "get tough" policy to Combat drunk driving. Patrolmen' were and a badly bruised knee. Five membersof the family of (Continued on Page Four) Wilford K. Wegener 40, Rich-- ( Continued7 on Page Four) r 1959 ii hearing in. Following a heated, which Democrats challenged legality of county contributions to Eldrod Hospital and Republicans asked what happened to the 1959 health center appropriation of $137,500 Utah County Commission approved a 1960 budget. of $1,490,759 actually spent in - 1957, Winter came to Provo and the view what happened in the past Utah Valley area today entire week and plan future strategy. U.S. Steel Board; Chairman bringing beauty and danger. Roads were snowpacked' and Roger M. Blough prepared to take the companies case to the nation Monday night over a coait to coast television (NBC) hookup. A U.S. Steel spokesman said would summarize manageBlough ment's side of the controversy in talk starting at 7:30 a half-ho"v p.m. e.s.tr Despite the burst of activity by top government officials, informed , sources said the prospects of within the next two weeks ar-powered Is u i , 1 nucle- the ! ; This compares with a 1959 budget of $1,653,597 and United Press International - 7 WASHINGTON V;ce4 (UPI) President Richard 1. Nixon and Labor Secretary James P. Mitch elisought anew to break cue deadlocked steel dispute at secret meetings with both sides, Nixon disclosed today. The latest in a series of'such conferences was held here Wednes tiay Nixon said in New York ae- iore boarding a plane for. a holiday in California. Nixon said President Eisenhower has been kept fully in Tormed on the discussions. But he declined repeatedly to commenLon what progress, if anv wasmade in the talks. "I can't say anything about a settlement,'' Nixon said. "All I can say is the parties are still meeting and have ji'b't reached an agreement. As for thf prospects of a settlement, I cannot anticipate at' this time what the outcome will be." Nixon said that he and Mitchell "have met several times with representatives of the steel union and the companies. We held meetings with both sides in Washington ' five-minut- 1 $1,520,594. To Break Steel Deadlock paint-daubin- across i Hospital, Health Center Debated In Long Hearing , f t. -- '- "?r-- p i (UPI) Navy said today it will have four Polaris missile submarines in op- Strike Leaders eration by early 1961, each able to rain down on an enemy within Lift Shutdown In minutes destruction equal to all Radio, TV Blackout World War II bombs;, The first of. these awesome PARIS (UPI) Leaders of the nation-wide George subsj radio and France's the fleet Washington, joined television strike decided today to Wednesday in commissioning cer- lift their shutdown briefly to alemonies at Groton, Conn. The low President Charles de Gaulle's three others the Patrick; Henry, New Year greeting to be read Robert E." Lee, and Theodore to the nation. Roosevelt The already have been message was to launched and will be commis- be delivered over the networks at sioned in I960. 8 p.m. Paris time. But De Gaulle In addition, the Navy has five himself was not going , to appear, more of the missile-firinsubs un- since he has canceled all public der construction the Ethan Al- appearances as a token of mournChristmas Eve. len, Thomas A. Edison, Abraham for his younger brbther, The desecration of the syna- Lincoln, Sam Houston and John ing Pierre, who died in Paris Saturgogue by Strunk and Schoenen, Marshall. day. both members of the extreme right German Reich Party, touched off a wave of desecraHard to Believe tions of synagogues Catholic churches country. ( PRICE FIVE CENTS . are remote. Earlier, the United Steelworks ers' Union advised its members they may boycott movies shown on company time to encourage (Continued on Page Four) The WASHINGTON ' periodically throuth Friday. Hirli Vice (UPI) President Richard M. Nixon flew today to California for a New Year's visit. on Ike Receives . NEW YORK United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) The Communications Workers of America said today recent polls of its members show a marked decline in support of the Democratic party; In 1948, the union poll was one of the few in the nation which indicated that President Harry S. Truman would win his fight for against former New E. York Governor Thomas Dewey. Th.e union said the surveys indicated Democrats still re-electi- - fife NIXON FLIES TO CALIFORNIA FOR NEW YEARS Uni: DO J. EATON By WILLIAM fX ITrT?T' ' PROVO, UTAH COUNTY; UTAH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1959 YEAR, NO. 109 EIGHTY-SEVENT- H ' ' 0(p)f)lw ,, ... advisory committee to study advisability of assigned the road. The board's action was prompted by new support voiced during the past two weeks by Salt Lake sion-appoint- ed and Southern Utah spokesmen. The; Road Commission a few weeks ago told representatives of the Provo City administration that the commission will not ' build the road until such time as the people of Utah County desired it built iiu-vJc- ar , Prof. E. K., Fcdorov, chief viet delegate to the Geneva cicar-tcs- t' talks, said the U.S. Sonu- -, un- derground blasts mentioned n Wednesday by the Communist Pravda were "chemical simulating nuclear exploI sions." Fedcrov's clarification was a passing remark in a statement that was general critical of the U.S. stand on detection of underground nuclear tests. (In Manchester, England, the Guardian reported receiving a telephone call from a Pravda editor iii London saying that Wednesday's story should not be interpreted as an accusation against the United States.) or-a- . s |